The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 29 April 2024

[1585/12/82]1

Exception of James Murray of Pardowis's pension from revocation

2Our sovereign lord, understanding that James Murray of Pardowis has a yearly pension conveyed to him out of the third and surplus of the abbacy of Coupar [Angus],3 to be possessed and intromitted with by them, and willing that he possess and enjoy the same in time coming, therefore our said sovereign lord, with advice of the three estates of this present parliament, ratifies, approves and confirms the aforesaid gift of pension made and granted to the said James, with decreet given by the lords of council according thereto, so that he may peaceably possess and enjoy the same in all time coming according to his gift of the same, notwithstanding whatsoever revocation made or to be made by our said sovereign, concerning the which his highness, with advice of the three estates, dispenses by this act, providing always that the said James was in possession of his said pension the year immediately before his departing out of this realm.

  1. NAS, PA2/13, ff.65r-v.
  2. 'P.O.' written in margin.
  3. This is probably Coupar Angus, Perthshire, not Cupar, Fife. The latter's only religious house was granted to the town in 1572. D. E. Easson, Medieval Religious Houses, Scotland (London, 1957), 98.